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{{Infobox_Company |
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company_name = BlueArc Corporation |
company_logo = [[Image:BlueArcLogo.png|150px|BlueArc Corporation logo (1998-present)]] |
company_type = [[Privately-held company|Private]]|
company_slogan = Accelerating the Digital World |
foundation = [[1998]] |
location = [[San Jose, California]], [[United States|USA]] |
key_people = Mike Gustafson, President and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]]<br \>Michael Hasley, [[Chief Financial Officer|CFO]]<br \>Shmuel Shottan, [[Chief Technical Officer|CTO]] |
industry = [[Data storage device]]s / [[Computer Storage]]|
products = [[BlueArc Titan 2000 Series]] |
homepage = [http://www.bluearc.com/ www.bluearc.com] |
}}
'''BlueArc Corporation''', founded in 1998, provides network storage devices for the [[Network-attached storage|NAS]] and [[Storage area network|SAN]] markets, built on a hardware-based architecture, using [[Altera]] [[FPGA]]s. The company's systems are most well-known for high performance network storage, and have set the world record for single and dual-node [[Network File System]] performance, as measured one of the most-common third party benchmarks, SPECsfs hosted by [[Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation|SPEC]]. [http://www.spec.org/sfs97r1/results/sfs97r1.html]

BlueArc's current products include the Titan 2100 and Titan 2200, the company's fourth-generation systems. The Titan 2000 systems, announced in February, 2006, doubled performance, scalability and throughput over the company's third-generation systems, and first-generation Titan offerings, which were introduced to the market in January, 2004. Previous offerings included the Si8000 family, introduced in 2002, and the Si7500, the company's first servers, which were introduced in March of 2001.

The company's offerings have been most widely adopted by customers in the entertainment, Internet services and life sciences markets, with additional sales in energy and gas, electronic discovery, technology, manufacturing and government. The company's first announced customers, in July 2001, were [[Altera]], [[Extreme Networks]] and [[Juniper Networks]]. Recent news coverage and company announcements report more than 170 customers, and in excess of 500 systems deployed. The company, through five rounds of funding, has raised in excess of $200 million from venture capital firms, the most recent of which included a $29 million round in June, 2006.

Additional customer announcements have included [[Accelrys]], [[Chevron Corporation]], [[LLNL]], [[NBC Sports]], [[Turner Entertainment|Turner Studios]], [[WebTrends]], and [[Zhone Technologies]]. Major industry competitors include [[Network Appliance]] and [[EMC Corporation]].

[[Category:Computer companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Companies based in the Silicon Valley]]
[[Category:Companies established in 1998]]

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